The new features
Solid features. Maximize productivity: The latest Xara Photo & Graphic Designer contains everything you need to achieve even better results.
Your photo. Your template:
Magic Color Match
Design invitations, flyers or other documents personalized in your style.
Simply insert a photo into any template and with one click adjust the entire document to the colors of the image.
Personalized greetings:
New content
Templates for invitations & holiday cards
Create stunning invitations and festive greeting cards to send to family, friends and clients.
Festive social media templates
Entertain your followers with fun social media posts during the Christmas holiday season and spread festive cheer!
Unleash your creativity:
SmartShapes
Arrow SmartShapes
The new Arrow SmartShapes are fully flexible and simple to use. You can customize the length, curve, width and line style of the arrow as required. This enables you to create the exact kind of arrow you need.
More Smart Labelled Lines
Our new Smart Labeled Lines make perfect headings and dividers, but they can also be used to accurately indicate measurements! Simply paste your text or unit of measurement and the line will automatically adjust to fit the inserted content.
SmartShapes
Easily create modern and stylish invitations or social media posts exactly the way you want with customizable trapezoids, parallelograms, wheels, pentagons and lots more!
Communicate clearly:
New text features
OpenType ligatures
Letters in the new OpenType ligatures combine in realtime into playful curls. In addition, you can add ornamentation and decorative touches to individual letters, words and text.
Colorful lines
Emphasize text in brand new ways: You can now highlight text passages or entire lines using color. There are lots of new creative possibilities with this design option!
Expanded Smart Text Panels
Perfect for social media posts or cards: The new Smart Text Panels enable you to make important text or quotations pop. These adjust to perfectly fit the length of your text.
Text field filler
Emphasize the most important information: With the text field filler, the text and font size will adjust to perfectly fit the shape.
New Text Case Controls
Lots of new & easy to apply options including ALL CAPS, all lower, Initial Caps and SMALL CAPS. It’s a great time saver!
Smart Fields
Use Smart Fields to store frequently used text such as names and addresses for adding to any document with a single click. It's now possible to link directly from different passages in a document to the text fields.
High-performance:
Enhanced productivity
Automatic bleed
Are your designs finished and ready for printing? Print layout can be seamlessly managed using Xara Photo & Graphic Designer.
This way you can easily submit the PDF/X of your design to a print shop and receive the exact prints you want!
Line charts
Use helpful grid lines to present data trends in clear line and bar charts. With rotating elements and lots of additional smart functions, you can customize your charts to perfection.
Save angle when rotating objects
When you’re rotating an object the angle now remains displayed in the InfoBar. This way, you always know the exact angle of rotation for all objects.
Improved Table SmartShapes
Clear graphics and tables are key in important documents. Use the improved SmartShapes for tables to present your data convincingly.
PDF Editor 3.0
Have you ever wanted graphic elements from a PDF? Maybe a logo, photo or text. With Photo & Graphic Designer it’s now as easy as copy / paste!
CSV import
Now you can easily create clear and compelling pie charts from CSV data in Xara Photo & Graphic Designer.
Object SVG export
SVG graphics are vector-based and can be scaled without loss in quality, making them ideal for responsive websites. And as a popular graphics format it offers a great new option for file interchange.
Fast Line Width Control
Lines and outlines can now be adjusted by simply scrolling your mouse wheel over the line. Small change, big time saving!
Knowledge Base
The Xara Photo & Graphic Designer Knowledge Base covers all questions regarding your product and offers help for any issues you might have.
All new features at a glance
Take a look at all the new features of the past years that you have received free of charge with the Update Service.
